THE BURY ST EDMUNDS SOCIETY CIO

Registered charity 1196640 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Bury Society is open to everyone who cares about Bury St Edmund's past, present and future.Our aim is to ensure that the town continues to grow and prosper whilst remaining a beautiful place to live, work or visit.Our objectives are to foster its heritage and character, encourage a balance of old and new and to inform and engage communities on matters that impact our local environment.

Objects

THE CIO IS ESTABLISHED FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT FOR THE FOLLOWING PURPOSES IN THE AREA OF BURY ST. EDMUNDS WHICH SHALL HEREINAFTER BE REFERRED TO AS 'THE AREA OF BENEFIT': 1. TO PROMOTE HIGH STANDARDS OF PLANNING AND ARCHITECTURE IN OR AFFECTING THE AREA OF BENEFIT. 2. TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE GEOGRAPHY, HISTORY, NATURAL HISTORY, CULTURE AND ARCHITECTURE OF THE AREA OF BENEFIT. 3. TO SECURE THE PRESERVATION, PROTECTION, DEVELOPMENT AND IMPROVEMENT OF FEATURES OR AREAS OF HISTORIC OR PUBLIC INTEREST IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT, INCLUDING THROUGH GRANT-MAKING.4. TO PROMOTE HORTICULTURE AND FLORICULTURE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC GENERALLY AND IN PARTICULAR THOSE WHO LIVE IN OR VISIT THE AREA OF BENEFIT BY THE PROVISION OF FLORAL DISPLAYS IN PLACES VISIBLE TO THE PUBLIC AND OTHER ACTIVITIES WHICH DIRECTLY PROMOTE HORTICULTURE AND FLORICULTURE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.

Area of benefit: LOCAL

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net expenditure of £1,978 for the year, resulting in a slight decrease in total funds from £120,147 to £118,169. The trustees state that reserves provide a secure base for future activities, noting that funds are retained amounting to one year's estimated fixed costs. The organization maintains adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/11/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/11/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• MARTYN TAYLORchair
• Alan Thomas Baxter
• Dr Benjamin Keith Willoughby Booth
• Edward Michael Thuell
• Jill Myra Badman
• PATRICK CHUNG · trustee of 1 other charity
• RUSSELL COOK
• Robin Nigel Richmond BURNETT
• SARAH JANE NUNN
• Samuel Anthony Saloway-Cooke
• Stephen Gary Moody
• Terence John O'DONOGHUE

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Suffolk

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).